Comments on: Things You Find While Cleaning Your Office

By: Scott Deerwester

Scott Deerwester — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 07:26:00 +0000

Back in the day, I was part of a research group at the University of Chicago. We spent a lot of time reading over the Xanadu stuff, such as was released. I will never forget the words “proprietary data structure” in the context of Xanadu. While we found the things we read to be very intriguing, the insistence on not revealing anything that would actually allow anybody else to participate killed it for us. We actually made a sign that adorned the wall for many years with “PDS” in one of the circles with a bar through them.

By: Chip

Chip — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 03:10:00 +0000

Rereading what I wrote there, I realize that I was unclear about precisely what the artifact was that I came across. The thing I found was the cover sheet with the curse on it, not the greater tome that it was attached to. No doubt that’s laying around the place somewhere too, but as of now I haven’t a clue where.
If I find it I’ll let folks know. I do recall that it had one of the more complete explications of what enfilades were all about. It goes into some detail about the Model-T and 2-D enfilade designs, though of course it predates the Ent.
(If the rest of you find the preceding somewhat opaque, see http://udanax.com/. Then at least you’ll really be entitled to be confused.)

By: John Dougan

John Dougan — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 09:14:00 +0000

Any chance that document could be made available? There are still a few of us maniacs out there (http://www.sunless-sea.net) that are interested in just how Xanadu as supposed to work.